{"id":3696,"date":"2009-10-21T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2009-10-21T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:43:20","slug":"latimes-com-the-deli-capital-its-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2009\/10\/21\/latimes-com-the-deli-capital-its-la\/","title":{"rendered":"LATimes.com: The deli capital? It&#8217;s LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Shatkin of LATimes.com has great coverage on David Sax&#8217;s &#8220;Save The Deli&#8221; book which comes out in just a very few days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the 1930s there were something along the lines of 1,500 kosher delis in New York,&#8221; Sax says. &#8220;Now, there are about two dozen in all of New York City. That&#8217;s an 80% to 90% decline. This has been echoed in other cities around the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet Los Angeles delis have managed to thrive in a niche market. Acre for acre, Sax maintains that Southern California boasts &#8220;more delicatessens of higher quality, on average, than anywhere else in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nBut Sax reserves his highest praise for Langer&#8217;s, near MacArthur Park &#8212; where the pastrami sandwich &#8220;encapsulates perfection at every turn&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/food\/la-fo-deli21-2009oct21,0,2458117.story?track=rss\" target=\"blank\">Click here to read the complete story at LATimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Langer&#8217;s is hosting an exclusive booksigning event with David Sax on October 28th<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vromansbookstore.com\/david-sax-save-the-deli\" target=\"blank\">click here to sign up now for this limited availability event!<\/a> The event includes lunch, a signed copy of David&#8217;s book (plus a chance to meet David), and a $10 Langer&#8217;s Gift Certificate for use on a subsequent visit to the restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elina Shatkin of LATimes.com has great coverage on David Sax&#8217;s &#8220;Save The Deli&#8221; book which comes out in just a very few days: &#8220;In the 1930s there were something along the lines of 1,500 kosher delis in New York,&#8221; Sax says. &#8220;Now, there are about two dozen in all of New York City. That&#8217;s an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50,16,51],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-sax","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-save-the-deli","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}